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Acquisitions 2004-2006: the First Priority of the National Trust's Acquisitions Policy is the Return to Its Houses of Works of Art and Furnishings Historically Associated with Them. There have been Some Notable Triumphs in the Past Two Years, Described by Christopher Rowell, Alastair Laing and James Rothwell in This Selection of Recent Gifts and Purchases.

Where Do We Come from? Where are We Going? the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, has Reopened After a Major Renovation and Expansion of Its Collections. Its Chief Curator, Eleanor Jones Harvey, Presents a Selection of Its New Acquisitions, All Designed to Further One of the Museum's Purposes: To Explore the Origins of American Culture--and to Suggest Where It is Heading (New MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS)

Britain and the Bauhaus: Alan Powers Challenges the View That the Reception of the Bauhaus in 1930S Britain Went Little Futher Than Providing Temporary Shelter for Some of Its Teachers. Common Roots with the Bauhaus in the Arts and Crafts Movement Helps to Explain a Lively British Interest in the School's Ideals, Among Not Only Architects But Also Designers--and Even Puppeteers (Essay)

Modern British Painting: After Decades in Which Twentieth-Century British Art was Seriously Undervalued, Prices for Paintings are Finally Beginning to Reflect the Quality of the Works. Why has It Taken So Long?(Collector's Focus)

Interwar Photography at the V&A: Modernism and More: The V&a's 'Modernism' Exhibition Demonstrates the Centrality of Photography to the Style. But, As Kate Best and Sophie Leighton Discuss, The Museum's Own Collection Reveals That Modernism was Just One Strand in Photographic Culture Between the Wars (Essay)

Arts and Crafts in London and Los Angeles: Two Ambitious Exhibitions Make Clear the Continuing Relevance of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Writes Peyton Skipwith, But the V&a's Show is a Severe Disappointment (Victoria and Albert Museum)